DAOGUANG SEAL MARK AND OF THE PERIOD
Details
A BLUE AND WHITE BOWL
DAOGUANG SEAL MARK AND OF THE PERIOD
The centre of the interior painted with a simple flower-head encircled by five almond-shaped bushes with interlinked scrolling stems divided by Tibetan lanca characters, all below a frieze of further lanca characters at the rim, the exterior with a similar design of interlinked bushes divided by lanca characters; and another blue and white bowl with a six-character Guangxu mark painted with fu characters dividing a floral scroll
the first 7in. (17.8cm.) diam; the second 5¾in. (14.5cm.) diam. (2)
DAOGUANG SEAL MARK AND OF THE PERIOD
The centre of the interior painted with a simple flower-head encircled by five almond-shaped bushes with interlinked scrolling stems divided by Tibetan lanca characters, all below a frieze of further lanca characters at the rim, the exterior with a similar design of interlinked bushes divided by lanca characters; and another blue and white bowl with a six-character Guangxu mark painted with fu characters dividing a floral scroll
the first 7in. (17.8cm.) diam; the second 5¾in. (14.5cm.) diam. (2)
Literature
A similar bowl to the first in this lot is in the British Museum and is illustrated by Garner, Oriental Blue and White, pl 82B; another in the Museum of Asiatic Art, Amsterdam is illustrated by van Oort, Chinese Porcelain of the 19th and 20th centuries, pl 2. A third in the Musee Guimet is included by Beurdeley in Porcelain of the East India Companies, Catalogue, no. 24. The author notes the rarity of porcelain for the Tibetan market.
A similar example sold in our Hog Kong rooms, 20 March 1990, lot 786.
A similar example sold in our Hog Kong rooms, 20 March 1990, lot 786.
Exhibited
The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Imperial Porcelain of Late Qing, Kwan Collection, 1983, Catalogue, no. 2
National Museum of History, Taipei, Imperial Porcelain of late Ch'ing, From the Kwan Collection, 1985, Catalogue, no. 2
National Museum of History, Taipei, Imperial Porcelain of late Ch'ing, From the Kwan Collection, 1985, Catalogue, no. 2